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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military provides a comprehensive overview of the multiple ways in which gender and militaries connect. International and multi-disciplinary in scope, this edited volume provides authoritative accounts of the many intersections through which...
by Dr Alexandra Howson
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2005
Embodying Gender provides students and academics with a critical overview of body concepts in both sociology and in feminism.
Previously, sociologists have attempted to gender the body and feminists have attempted to embody gender but Alexandra Howson's accessible new text draws these two literatures...
by Niall Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
This lively and engaging text introduces students to the key contemporary issues in the study of gender and the media. Integrating cultural theory with text-based criticism, Gender in the Media analyses recent debates in feminist cultural theory, masculinity studies and queer theory, before applying...
Going Stealth
Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
In Going Stealth Toby Beauchamp demonstrates how the enforcement of gender conformity is linked to state surveillance practices that identify threats based on racial, gender, national, and ableist categories of difference. Positioning surveillance as central to our understanding of transgender politics,...
Gender and Distance Education
Indian and International Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This book investigates the intersection of gender and distance education from a feminist perspective and explores their contemporary innovative interfaces in Indian and international contexts.
The key issues raised here include a re- investigation of the democratizing potential of distance...
Women Researching in Africa
The Impact of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This edited collection explores the lives, consequences and motivations of female researchers in Africa, giving unprecedented insights into how their gender—and sometimes their ethnicity and age—impacted on their research experiences, and how doing research in Africa affected them as women. Each...
Framed by Gender
How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
In an advanced society like the U.S., where an array of processes work against gender inequality, how does this inequality persist? Integrating research from sociology, social cognition and psychology, and organizational behavior, Framed by Gender identifies the general processes through which gender...
Gender Outlaws
The Next Generation
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
In the 15 years since the release of Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein’s groundbreaking challenge to gender ideology, transgender narratives have made their way from the margins to the mainstream and back again. Today's transgenders and other sex/gender radicals are writing a drastically new world into...
Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas is a groundbreaking scholarly exploration of this long-neglected subject. It...
by Nicole Detraz
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Climate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now and into the future. Each are damaging to the earth, but they also negatively impact human lives, especially those of women. Despite these important...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This tool kit assists staff and consultants of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in conceptualizing and designing gender-responsive programs and projects in public sector management (PSM). It aims to help users identify and investigate gender issues and to build practical design elements into PSM programs...
Bisexuality and Transgenderism
InterSEXions of the Others
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Explore the common ground-and the important differences-between bisexuality and transgenderism!
This book, guaranteed to provoke debate and discussion of sexuality and gender, is the first devoted exclusively to the relationship between transgenderism and bisexuality. Combining the work of...
Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws
Sexual Oppression and Gender Hierarchies in Queer Men's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A candid re-examination of what it means to be a gay man
Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws: Sexual Oppression and Gender Hierarchies in Queer Men’s Lives explores the impact and effects of sexual oppression and power relationships within the gay male community. This controversial book...
Gender, Globalization, and Violence
Postcolonial Conflict Zones
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This wide-ranging collection of essays elaborates on some of the most pressing issues in contemporary postcolonial society in their transition from conflict and contestation to dialogue and resolution. It explores from new angles questions of violent conflict, forced migration, trafficking and deportation,...